Well,

After 3 1/2 weeks in Hawaii, I'm finally back in Japan. I flew in late last week and I've finally got back to my regular schedule...and cold weather. It good to be home and back reading at Fool.com.

BTW: October is gun awareness month at Narita Airport. They had big banner displaying this at customs. I thought this was kind of funny since guns are illegal in Japan

Lenny

Still in Japan :-)

Welcome back, Lenny! I hope the Hawaiian sun was good to you (he said, jealously!).

Will you be watching the World Series from Japan? I'm guessing they carry it there, but I might be...dropping the ball on that one. ;)

Tony
...but I still am...

Off2Aruba

Will you be watching the World Series from Japan?


Just be sure to practice safe sox.


Disney Dan
(Did I say that?)

Just be sure to practice safe sox

Hmmm...safe sox.

Perhaps that's where Dr. Scholls pads come in.

You know, for the agony of da feet.

(now that's a pun with sole!)

...wasn't that a heel of a thing to say?

...I think they're sole-d at Mickey D's, the Golden Arches.

Tony (who's trying to get all the foot puns out of the way at once)
...but I still am...

Off2Aruba

Will you be watching the World Series from Japan? I'm guessing they carry it there, but I might be...dropping the ball on that one. ;)

I've got quite the yen for baseball!

All joking aside, I can get most of the baseball games
here in Japan. Usally they are on around 6:00am in the
morning (for a 5:oopm EDT start).

Of coarse football is even better. Getting up at 2:00am Monday for NFL shows what kind of fan you really are!

Monday night games are on at 10:00am Tuesday...makes for a perferct long lunch.

Lenny
Tax-free in Japan

Just be sure to practice safe sox.

I would, but unfortunatly my team suffers a disfuction known as premature elimination. They have trouble scoring when it is time to perform.

Lenny

Ohayo Gozaimasu, Lenny!

I know I botched up the spelling, but I'm hoping I impressed you anyway.

Konichua! Oops! there I go again.

Now what was my point? Oh yeah...it's good to see that puns are alive and well in Japan too. : )

Sayonara! (Now that one I know I spelled correctly!)

Tony
...but I still am...

Off2Aruba

Tony (who's trying to get all the foot puns out of the way at once)


If I've toed you once, I've toed you again...

Whenever there is a chance to make a pun, you just sneaker in. Boot you do rise to the occasion.

Well, that's it for now. Just thought I would sandle little note off to you.


Disney Dan
(always under foot)

Well, that's it for now. Just thought I would sandle little note off to you.

Thanks, Dan! You really pumped me up with that.

I knew you weren't a loafer.

Tony
...but I still am...

Off2Aruba

Ohayo Gozaimasu, Lenny!

I know I botched up the spelling, but I'm hoping I impressed you anyway

I'm impressed...that's more than I knew when I first got here.

Ther first phrase I learned was "O'toiday wa doku desu ka?" (where the toilet>)

Send was, "Beeru kudasai" (Beer Please)

Yep...you see where my priorities were :-)

My biggest problem now is that is I say something in Japanese, they assume I'm 110% fluent and rattle of phrases faster than a speeding bullet train, so I end up using english half the time.

The other problem I have is that my mind will through words from the 3 years of German I took year ago. When I'm trying to answer, I have to stop myself from speaking in a form of broken english/german/japanese.

Lenny
90% Illiterate in several languages

Ther first phrase I learned was "O'toiday wa doku desu ka?" (where the toilet>)

Oh, when we were in Japan, my wife asked this question in English. We were visiting a supermarket (and are they beautiful in Japan!!) and was directed to where it was.

And was she surprised to find that the ladies room was merely a hole in the floor!!

Made for great conversation though. : )

Tony
...but I still am...

Off2Aruba

So Tony.

Huarache going to do the rest of the evening?

Maybe I will go to the kitchen and find some cobbler.


Disney Dan

And was she surprised to find that the ladies room was merely a hole in the floor!!
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Aka the 'bomb sight' potty.


Raggmopp

And was she surprised to find that the ladies room was merely a hole in the floor!!

Far cry from the Iomega bathroom she has now, right?

Of course, Tony, if you had held onto that stock another year, you could now 'afford' to give her a Japanese replica bathroom instead.


Jeanie

Just be sure to practice safe sox.

I could say that the only safe sox is a dead yankee.

But that would be cruel.

So I won't say it.


Jeanie

Just be sure to practice safe sox

Hmmm...safe sox.

Perhaps that's where Dr. Scholls pads come in.

You know, for the agony of da feet.

(now that's a pun with sole!)

...wasn't that a heel of a thing to say?

...I think they're sole-d at Mickey D's, the Golden Arches.

Tony (who's trying to get all the foot puns out of the way at once)


<giggle> Dan, Tony - Stop! You're killing me!

<giggle>

Andrea :D

Of course, Tony, if you had held onto that stock another year, you could now 'afford' to give her a Japanese replica bathroom instead.

Oy! Is that ever right!

Had we held on to that stock, we sure wouldn't be feeling flush at all!

Tony
...but I still am...

Off2Aruba